The PP will present parliamentary initiatives for the defense of the footwear sector of Castile-La Mancha

This is what he said after the meetings he held, Thursday and Friday, with members of the Federation of Footwear Industries from the cities of Fuensalida (Toledo) and Almansa (Albacete), with whom he agreed on the actions announced to protect an important sector for the regional economy, a “strategic” sector which employs thousands of Castile-La Mancha residents and has hundreds of suppliers, creating a circular economy and scale around footwear.

The president of the “popular” of the region indicated that the sector is in a moment of “extreme difficulty”, since the pandemic marked a before and after which left this industry with serious problems of which we do not know that she has recovered. Problems like decline in sales of shoes, especially those for men, a change in consumer trends that causes people to stop buying this type of goods, or fashion trends that exclude this type of shoes.

As the PP reports in a press release, businessmen in the sector are aware of this new reality, but it continues to cause problems in their daily lives, as well as the high production costshigh inflation or the closure of important markets due to the war in Ukraine. For all these reasons, he assured that it is a part of the regional economy that must be protected by public administrations.

The leader of the PP in the region highlighted the figure of the mayor of Fuensalida, José Jaime Alonso, for being “the first” to have raised the flag of the struggle for shoes, asking the regional PP to take charge of the demands of the sector, and also demanding global work so that footwear entrepreneurs receive the help and support they deserve.

Thus, Núñez recounted the three agreements he concluded with shoe entrepreneurs from Almansa and Fuensalida. The first of these was the presentation before the regional courts of a non-legislative proposal in favor of the footwear sector, in order to position Parliament in its favor and against European regulations that may harm footwear, such as C This is the case of the application of the law on delinquency to this sector, which could lead to a drastic fall in part of the sector.

Furthermore, the regional president of the PP reported on the start of work in the Senate, with the help of the PP of the Valencian Community, on initiatives that give visibility to the footwear sector and the need to defend it, that is why the senators from the two territories will join forces and work in the Upper House.

The footwear sector will also have its spokesperson in the European institutions through the work of the PP, which is why Núñez reported that, through the MEP Pablo Arias, the need to include shoes in the exceptions will be transmitted. Delinquency law.